English 11: Mrs. Delaney/Ms. Small
Media Specialist: Joyce Giuliani
Their Eyes Were Watching God Literary Criticism Pathfinder
The following are reference tools you will find useful in any literary research. Choose the ones that make the most sense for your particular research problem and examine their tables of contents and indexes.
Why analyze literature? Read this article by Professor John Lye, Brock University, for tips and rationale.
Books and Reference Materials o HayfieldMedia Center: http://libcat.fcps.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/57/49?user_id=180WEB o FairfaxCountyPublic Library: http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/default.htm o On our shelves: · 808.882. HUD Powerful Words: More Than 200 Years of Extraordinary Writing by African Americans · R 809 CON Contemporary Literary Criticism, volume(s) 7:171; 30:210-12, 215-16, 218-19, 222-25, 227-28; 61:237-75 · R 809 Mag Magill’s Survey of World Literature · R 809.9 LIT Literature and Its Times volume(s) 3:383-89 · R 809.91 LIT Literary Movements for Students volume(s) 2:101 · R 809.927 CHA Characters in 20th Century Literature · R 813.008 NOV Novels for Students volume(s) 3:300-12 · R 810.9 REF Reference Guide to Literature 4:1058-59 · R 810.9 GRE Great American Writiers: Twentieth Century · R 813.52 AME American Fiction Between the Wars · 813.52 CAM Student companion to Zora Neale Hurston · R 813.52 HUR Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God · R 818.508 BLA Black American Prose Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance
Biography · 92 HUR Zora Neale Hurston: “I Have Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen” · Prof 92 HUR + 1 CD Speak, So You can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston · R920 HOW The Roaring Twenties Biographies · 920 ALT Extraordinary African-Americans · 920 LEG Legends: Women Who Have Changed the World Through the Eyes of Great Women Writers · 920 WHO The 20th Century, Pre-1945: Artists, Writers, and Composers · 928 BLA Black American Prose Writers of the Harlem Renaissance Research Databases (Passwords and ID’s for remote access are available on Blackboard 24/7 in the Hayfield Media Center Resources Course)
English 11: Mrs. Delaney/Ms. Small
Media Specialist: Joyce Giuliani
Their Eyes Were Watching God Literary Criticism Pathfinder
The following are reference tools you will find useful in any literary research. Choose the ones that make the most sense for your particular research problem and examine their tables of contents and indexes.
- Why analyze literature? Read this article by Professor John Lye, Brock University, for tips and rationale.
- Our handout on What is Literary Criticism?
- For book reviews (these are not considered sources of literary criticism)
- Contemporary Authors
- Internet Public Library Lit Crit Resources
- Rhetorical Devices
Books and Reference Materialso Hayfield Media Center: http://libcat.fcps.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/57/49?user_id=180WEB
o Fairfax County Public Library: http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/default.htm
o On our shelves:
· 808.882. HUD Powerful Words: More Than 200 Years of Extraordinary Writing by African Americans
· R 809 CON Contemporary Literary Criticism, volume(s) 7:171; 30:210-12, 215-16, 218-19, 222-25, 227-28; 61:237-75
· R 809 Mag Magill’s Survey of World Literature
· R 809.9 LIT Literature and Its Times volume(s) 3:383-89
· R 809.91 LIT Literary Movements for Students volume(s) 2:101
· R 809.927 CHA Characters in 20th Century Literature
· R 813.008 NOV Novels for Students volume(s) 3:300-12
· R 810.9 REF Reference Guide to Literature 4:1058-59
· R 810.9 GRE Great American Writiers: Twentieth Century
· R 813.52 AME American Fiction Between the Wars
· 813.52 CAM Student companion to Zora Neale Hurston
· R 813.52 HUR Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
· R 818.508 BLA Black American Prose Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance
Biography
· 92 HUR Zora Neale Hurston: “I Have Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen”
· Prof 92 HUR + 1 CD Speak, So You can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
· R920 HOW The Roaring Twenties Biographies
· 920 ALT Extraordinary African-Americans
· 920 LEG Legends: Women Who Have Changed the World Through the Eyes of Great Women Writers
· 920 WHO The 20th Century, Pre-1945: Artists, Writers, and Composers
· 928 BLA Black American Prose Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
Research Databases (Passwords and ID’s for remote access are available on Blackboard 24/7 in the Hayfield Media Center Resources Course)
- Literature Resource Center (full-text criticism, overviews, biography)
- Literature Resources From Gale
- JSTOR (for academic archival articles and criticism)
- Literary Reference Center (full-text criticism, overviews, biography, reviews, author interviews)
- Student Resource Center Gold
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- General Reference Center Gold
- NoveList
- Biography Resource Center
- eLibrary
e-Books· Black literature criticism: classic and emerging black writers since 1950
Krstovic, Jelena O. 2:1073, 1075, 1077-88
· Literary movements for students [electronic resource] : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on literary movements Milne, Ira Mark. volume(s) 2:101
· 5GSK&v=2.1&u=fairfaxcps&it=aboutBook&p=GVRL&sw=w|Novels for students volume(s) 3:300-12
· Feminism in literature [electronic resource] : a Gale critical companion
Bomarito, Jessica, 1975-
· Harlem Renaissance [electronic resource]
Howes, Kelly King.
· 5LBM&v=2.1&u=alex41841_e&it=aboutBook&p=GVRL&sw=w|Drama for Students
· 5CIU&v=2.1&u=alex41841_e&it=aboutBook&p=GVRL&sw=w|Short Stories for Students
· Gale Virtual Reference Library>Literature Gale e-books, includes all 6 above plus many other titles. Widget is already located on first page
Websites
· Shmoop Literature (research tools and links)
· Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library)
· Literary History An index to free articles on English and American literature, mixed bag of scholarly and popular
· Literary Index
· Literary Resources on the Net
· LitLinks
· PAL: Perspectives in American Literature--A Research and Reference Guide
· SchoolWork.org Literary Criticism and Biography
MLA Citation Information: http://www.fcps.edu/HayfieldSS/mediactr/Works%20Cited/Citation%20Guides.htm